The Fragility of Law: Constitutional Patriotism, Collaboration and the Jews of Belgium, 1940-1945 (original) (raw)

Abstract

Based on extensive archival research in Belgium, France, the United States and Israel, The Fragility of Law offers the first detailed exploration in English of this intriguing and virtually unexplored episode of Holocaust history. Belgian legal officials did not hesitate to invoke the provisions of international law found in the Hague Convention and those guarantees of individual freedom found in the national Constitution to oppose the demands of the German Occupying Authority. However, they remained largely silent when anti-Jewish persecution was at stake. Indeed, despite the 2007 official report of expert historians on Belgian state collaboration in the persecution of the country’s Jewish population, the mythology of passive collaboration which has dominated Belgian historiography and accounts of the Holocaust in that country, must be radically rethought.

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